Lin Tai-yi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.

Lin Tai-yi (Chinese: 林太乙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926[1] – July 2003)[2] was a Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang.[3]

The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing[1] and came to the United States with her family when she was ten. Lin was educated at Columbia University. She taught Chinese at Yale. She married Richard Ming Lai,[4] a Hong Kong official and the couple moved to Hong Kong. Lin was the Editor-in-Chief for the Hong Kong Reader's Digest from 1965 to 1988.[3] She also wrote for various magazines.[1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988.[5]

She wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17.[4]

Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer. The two sisters translated Girl Rebel, the autobiography of Xie Bingying.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 184. ISBN 0313289883.
  2. ^ "Obituary" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society (42): 11. 2003.
  3. ^ a b Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 168–69. ISBN 978-0810855779.
  4. ^ a b Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 360–63. ISBN 0313309116.
  5. ^ Hamrin, Carol Lee; Bieler, Stacey (2011). Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Vol. 3. p. 157. ISBN 978-1621892908.